rolzan Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Hi all, here are some pics of our Highland Terrarium the Terrarium was potted in August. Best Regards, Rolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarraceniashawn Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Nice Heliamphora! Lookin good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingman Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Outstanding terrarium!! What is the lighting and how many watts? Do you find that you have to keep the live sphagnum under control? How do you keep it cool? Thanks! Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolzan Posted November 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Thanks for your nice comments. The light is provided by 4 x 54 Watt T5 Bulbs, Lightcolor 865 / 840 mixed. The Sphagnum must be cut down from Time to Time. The Terrarium is placed in a unheated cellar room, so i dont have to cool it down otherwise. The Temperatur in the Tank is in Summer 28-34° Celsius at daytime and 18-20° in the night. In the Wintertime its 25-30° dat day and 14-17° at night. Best Regards, Rolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schimatrix Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Rolf, if I had something like that I think I couldn't take my eyes off it a real garden of eden! congratulations giuseppe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tranchette Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Wooooohh, is very nice!!!!!!! is big the terrarium? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chug Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 That is an amazing terra you have, filled with fantastic looking plants. :) What heliamphora's do you have in the terra? We should have a Terra Comp or something. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolzan Posted November 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 hi, thanx for the nice compliments. @Tranchette The Terrarium is 120 x 40 x 50 cm @chug 1 x H. minor 1 x H. pulchella small Form 1 x H. heterodoxa 2 x H. heterodoxa x minor 1 x H. heterodoxa x nutans 1 x H. heterodoxa x ionasii Best Regards, Rolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockhom Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Hello Rolzan . Your terrarium is magnificent. The competition idea would indeed be interesting... Did you get your Heliamphora from C. Klein? By the way, aren't you worry by the the future Heliamphora flowers stems? My heterodoxa x minor is flowering right now and i fear my 50 cm height terrrium might be a bit too small :? . Friendly, François. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolzan Posted November 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Hi, the H. pulchella small Form is from C.Klein. The other Heliamphoras from Andreas Wistuba. Best Regards, Rolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vraev Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Amazing terrarium there. How long did it take for the moss to grow like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolzan Posted November 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Hi, Sphagnum grows very well under artificial lights. The moss in the Terrarium did take about 3 Months to grow. The Sphagnum must be cut down weekly in order to avoid overgrowing. Best Regards, Rolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockhom Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 the H. pulchella small Form is from C.Klein. The other Heliamphoras from Andreas Wistuba. Well, you're doing a great job. Your sunpitchers are stocky and healthy. How long did it take for your Heliamphora to reach this size? Friendly, François. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolzan Posted November 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Hi, my Heliamphora takes about 4 years to reach this Size. Best Regards, Rolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Cornish Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 What an amazing looking terrarium. Thanks for sharing. Regards Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Green Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Stunning. Great job you've done there. Almost makes me wish I grew mine in a terrarium - but with something like that I don't think I would ever get to work. This must surely turn almost anyone onto CP's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vraev Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Rolf, I was also looking at your lowland terrarium pics here and wanted to ask...Please make a tutorial. Also please tell me the "bean shape leaf" plant in the midst there.....is it a corkscrew??? WOW....How do you know which plants can be used as companions?? Can I just pick out some random ferns from the nursery and put them in my terrarium??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolzan Posted November 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Hi, thanks again for the nice comments. the Highland-Terrarium Background consists of XAXIM (Treefern) plates which are sticked to the Back with Aquarium-Silicone. The Lowland-Terrarium Background is a Tree-root (collected from forest) which is cutted in Slices. The Slices are sticked with Aquarium-Silicone to the Back. The Moss is Sphagnum-Moss. It grows very well under artificial lights. The Underground consists of a 5-10 cm Peat-layer. Its enough to place a 2-3 cm Sphagnum-layer on Top of the Peat-layer. With good Lights the Sphagnum takes about 5-6 Weeks to grow exuberantly. The "bean shape leaf" plant in the Lowland Terraium is a Hygrophila nervata. As corollary Plants almost all Aquarium-Plants can be used, asumed you can provide a adequate high Humidity (but this should be a prerequisite for a HL or LL Terrarium). Many of our Plants are Aquarium-Plants, others are from the swamp in the backyard or collected in the Nature. Just give it a try, many plants (from which we exepted the opposite) grows very well. Some non-carnivorous Plants we have in our Terrariums: - Lysimachia nummularia - Anubias heterophylla - Anubias barteri nana - Hygrophila nervata - Carex gracilis - Hygrophila polysperma - Vaccinium macrocarpon - Phalanaeopsis - Calluna vulgaris - dischidia (dont know the full name) - miscellaneous epiphytic tillandsias - miscellaneous ferns Best Regards, Rolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christerb Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Thanks for showing this beautiful creation. I was about to ask you if the mantid in this tank was real or not, but I saw in the lowland tank thread that you had one in there as well. Your lowland tank is stunning too, by the way. Regards, Christer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolzan Posted July 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 Hi all, here are a few new pics form our highland-terrarium. The tank is totaly new arranged, we have removed all the big Heliamphora-hybrids. Our big H. heterodoxa was sadly killed by a root fungus. :-( The tank is now basically planted with many juvenile Heliamphoras, 2 Nepenthes, a few Droseras and Utricularias and some corollary plants. The tank is watered by a raining-system (lucky reptile super rain), the humidity is provided by a fogger (lucky reptile super fog). It comes with a closed water circulation, so we have additionally installed an Eheim external waterfilter. The air agitation is done with 2 pc-fans which are integrated in the cap. sorry for my bad english best regards, rolzan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingman Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 Thanks for the new pics. Very inspirational! Makes you want to do your own terrarium. Peter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tranchette Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 very nice!!!!! a question, what are the plants of wall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikei Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 nice!!! your sphagnum moss is amazing ! it is so lush and green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolzan Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 Hi all, thanks for the nice replys. @Tranchette - what plants do you mean? Many plants (several ferns and others for me unknown litte plants) grows out of the xaxim plates, the other plants are planted by hand. @Mikei - as posted earlier sphagnum grows very well under artifcial lights. The other thing is that the moss is always very wet, due to the raining and fogging systems. best regards, rolzan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmie Hansen Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 Very very nice! Looks really exotic! Im thinking of building a watering system to my tank myself. What are those utrics? And what do you do when they want dormacy if I may ask! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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